Francesco Foschi

(Ancona, 1710 - Roma, 1780)

Oil on canvas

cm. 61,5x72. Framed

Francesco Foschi from Ancona was the greatest interpreter of the distinctly Nordic winter landscape genre in Italy. The canvas presented here exemplifies to the highest degree Foschi's qualities as a landscape painter and his extreme knowledge of colouring, virtues here enhanced by the admirable essentiality and clarity of the composition, with that single figure at the centre of a crossroads of paths, walking towards a mysterious destination immersed in a grandiose and inhospitable nature. Our canvas can be usefully compared with works by Foschi such as Travellers along the shore of a lake, formerly in the Fritz Heinemann collection (Vinci-Corsini, no. 32, p. 51), View of a Cottage from a Cave (Ibid., no. 34, p. 53), Landscape with Post Station and Tavern from the Musée des Beaux-arts in Lille (Ibid.,no. 109, p. 114).